Cornell University Press: 1150 books
Everyone Counts
Could "Participatory Budgeting" Change Democracy?
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
The Laurence and Lynne Brown Democracy Medal recognizes outstanding individuals, groups, and organizations that produce exceptional innovations to further democracy in the United States or around the world.
The inaugural medal winner, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP), is an innovative...
by Pippa Norris
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
The flaws in the American electoral process have become increasingly apparent in recent years. The contemporary tipping point in public awareness occurred during the 2000 election count, and concern deepened due to several major problems observed in the 2016 campaign, worsening party polarization,...
Investing in Financial Research
A Decision-Making System for Better Results
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2019
Every day, people around the world make financial decisions. They choose to invest in a stock, sell their holdings in a mutual fund or buy a condominium. These decisions are complex and financially tricky—even for financial professionals. But the literature available on financial research is dated...
by Leon Stein
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"Leon Stein’s gripping narrative of the Triangle tragedy is one of the classics of American history. As the grandson of a onetime Triangle seamstress, I salute the reissue of a book that anyone who cares about labor, past or present, should read."—Michael Kazin, Georgetown University, author of...
New Labor in New York
Precarious Workers and the Future of the Labor Movement
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
New York City boasts a higher rate of unionization than any other major U.S. city—roughly double the national average—but the city's unions have suffered steady and relentless decline, especially in the private sector. With higher levels of income inequality than any other large city in the nation,...
Nursing against the Odds
How Health Care Cost Cutting, Media Stereotypes, and Medical Hubris Undermine Nurses and Patient Care
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the United States and throughout the industrialized world, just as the population of older and sicker patients is about to explode, we have a major shortage of nurses. Why are so many RNs dropping out of health care's largest profession? How will the lack of skilled, experienced caregivers affect...
Dagger John
Archbishop John Hughes and the Making of Irish America
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Acclaimed biographer John Loughery tells the story of John Hughes, son of Ireland, friend of William Seward and James Buchanan, founder of St. John’s College (now Fordham University), builder of Saint Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, pioneer of parochial-school education, and American diplomat....
by Saru Jayaraman
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
"Sustainability is about contributing to a society that everybody benefits from, not just going organic because you don't want to die from cancer or have a difficult pregnancy. What is a sustainable restaurant? It's one in which as the restaurant grows, the people grow with it."-from Behind...
Class Lives
Stories from across Our Economic Divide
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2014
Class Lives is an anthology of narratives dramatizing the lived experience of class in America. It includes forty original essays from authors who represent a range of classes, genders, races, ethnicities, ages, and occupations across the United States. Born into poverty, working class, the middle...
Retirement on the Line
Age, Work, and Value in an American Factory
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
In an era when people live longer and want (or need) to work past the traditional retirement age, the Vita Needle Company of Needham, Massachusetts, provides inspiration and important lessons about the value of older workers. Vita Needle is a family-owned factory that was founded in 1932 and makes...
The Next Crash
How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
If you are one of over 700 million passengers who will fly in America this year, you need to read this book. The Next Crash offers a shocking perspective on the aviation industry by a former United Airlines pilot. Weaving insider knowledge with hundreds of employee interviews, Amy L. Fraher uncovers...
Up in the Air
How Airlines Can Improve Performance by Engaging Their Employees
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
"And you thought the passengers were mad. Airline employees are fed up, too-with pay cuts, increased workloads and management's miserly ways, which leave workers to explain to often-enraged passengers why flying has become such a miserable experience."—New York Times, December 22, 2007When both...
From Silence to Voice
What Nurses Know and Must Communicate to the Public
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Praise for previous editions—
"The book is written by two journalists who have taken on the nursing profession more or less the way we take on patients with a life-threatening condition that is curable but requires both intensive and long-term care. The diagnosis, according to Buresh and...
I Am Not a Tractor!
How Florida Farmworkers Took On the Fast Food Giants and Won
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2017
I Am Not a Tractor! celebrates the courage, vision, and creativity of the farmworkers and community leaders who have transformed one of the worst agricultural situations in the United States into one of the best. Susan L. Marquis highlights past abuses workers suffered in Florida’s tomato fields:...